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Reading Horowitz

My short list.

While putting together my collected writings, which will be published in 10 volumes starting this spring (Title: The Black Book of the American Left), it occurred to me that I have written so much that readers may have trouble figuring out where to start. So I put together this short list of what I think are the books of mine that will most repay the investment and time. The first four are the books I think of as my best and most rewarding literary efforts along with “Unnecessary Losses,” the autobiographical section of The Politics of Bad Faith. Of course I’ve also written specialized books, e.g., on race, higher education, the war in Iraq, etc. which will be of more interest to readers looking for information and analysis on those subjects. But these are the ones I recommend:

Radical Son

The End of Time

A Point In Time

A Cracking of the Heart

Radicals: Portraits of a Destructive Passion

The Politics of Bad Faith

Unholy Alliance

Reforming Our Universities

I have also published a collection called Left Illusions, which includes writings from every stage of my intellectual career through 2003 when it was published. It includes a comprehensive bibliography and excellent introductory study of my life and work by Jamie Glazov who edited the book. --DH

David Horowitz was one of the founders of the New Left in the 1960s and an editor of its largest magazine, Ramparts. He is the author, with Peter Collier, of three best selling dynastic biographies: The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty (1976); The Kennedys: An American Dream (1984); and The Fords: An American Epic (1987). Looking back in anger at their days in the New Left, he and Collier wrote Destructive Generation (1989), a chronicle of their second thoughts about the 60s that has been compared to Whittaker Chambers’ Witness and other classic works documenting a break from totalitarianism. Horowitz examined this subject more closely in Radical Son (1996), a memoir tracing his odyssey from “red-diaper baby” to conservative activist that George Gilder described as “the first great autobiography of his generation.” He is author of the newly published book The Great Betrayal (Regnery 2014), which is a chronicle of the Democrats treachery in the war on terror before 9/11 to the death of Osama bin Laden.